Bug 409538

Summary:	Display alarms don't work, but command alarms do work
Product:	[Applications] kalarm	Reporter:	David Jarvie <djarvie>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Jarvie <djarvie>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.11.16
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mint (Debian based)
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=229&t=161065&sid=14561f16894657f31191970140131294
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description David Jarvie 2019-07-05 20:41:15 UTC

Reported in KAlarm forum: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=229&t=161065&sid=14561f16894657f31191970140131294

Command alarms work, but display alarms do not.

I create a simple message to pop up in a minute or two. When the time arrives there is no message displayed but the entry is removed from the list as I think might be expected. Also, when I click the "Try" button to test it, nothing happens and no popup occurs. There is no error message.

When I logged on in a Plasma session. I got "all shell packages missing" but the blank black desktop was quickly overlaid with three KAlarm test display messages that I had created yesterday. 


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux Mint 19 Tara (based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), Gnome

Then installed korganizer, plasma-workspace, kalarm (probably KDE Applications 17.12.3, KAlarm 2.11.16)

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE gives:
x11

echo $DESKTOP_SESSION gives:
xfce

Comment 1 David Jarvie 2020-05-25 14:06:57 UTC

I can't reproduce this on Neon, either with KDE or XFCE as the desktop. Some sort of system configuration issue seems like the most likely explanation.